Outdoors · Badger

Badger, AK parks, trails & bike paths

About 15% of Badger is conserved land, roughly 6,109 acres. There are about 67 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Chena River Lakes Recreation Area (5 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Badger, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Badger outdoors

Conserved land
15%
6,109 of 42,238 acres
Trails
67 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 26 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
327 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
15.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 15.4 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
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Chena River Lakes Recreation Area

Managed by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation
2,057 acres5 mi of trail
5.5km Trail4km Nature TrailRiver Loop2.5km Cutoff
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Picnic areas in Badger
East Lake Picnic AreaIn Chena River Lakes Recreation Area
Directions
Unnamed picnic area in Chena River Lakes Recreation Area
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Unpaved 5.1 mi
Showing 1–10 of 16 trails
  • 5.5km Trail3.2 mi
  • Jeep Trail3.2 mi
  • Peede Road Extension3.0 mi
  • 4km Nature Trail1.1 mi
  • Left bank trail to Freeman1.1 mi
  • Section line1.0 mi
  • River Loop0.8 mi
  • Bob's winter trail0.7 mi
  • Powerline trail0.5 mi
  • River trail0.5 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

6,109 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
6,034 ac
County
76 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 5 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths15.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball4
  • Soccer2
  • Basketball2
  • Hockey rinks2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Badger

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Other or Unknown 6,034 acLocal Park 76 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
State PatentedState Other or UnknownState natural resources2,353Access unknown
State Land Disposals - Municipal PurposesState Other or UnknownState natural resources2,232Access unknown
State Land Disposals - Other Than MunicipalState Other or UnknownState natural resources1,449Access unknown
Newby ParkLocal ParkCounty73Open
Kendall ParkLocal ParkCounty2Open
Nearby

Badger and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Badger14.5%66.6 mi1
North Pole23.3%7.7 mi2
Steele Creek36.4%49.4 mi1
Fairbanks5.9%72.5 mi16
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Badger's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 36.6-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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